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Mix-up (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I guess it is a depiction of a miracle of resurrection. It could be saint Nicholas or similar to this story:

One story tells how during a terrible famine, a malicious butcher lured three little children into his house, where he killed them, placing their remains in a barrel to cure, planning to sell them off as ham. Nicholas, visiting the region to care for the hungry, saw through the butcher's lies and resurrected the pickled children by making the sign of the cross.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

pickled children

Well there's a phrase I didn't expect to hear, well, ever

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That's what I will call anything pickled now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Elves are pickled children?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What book is that from?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wikipedia cites this one: Ferguson, George (1976) [1954], "St. Nicholas of Myra or Bari", Signs and Symbols in Christian Art, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, pp. 135–136

You can "borrow" this version for free: https://archive.org/details/signssymbolsinch0000unse/ The story is at page 81. But there're no more details, just the same short paragraph.